Steel Mountain

Steel Mountain. The hacker's dilemma. What to do when a bunch of data you want to destroy is completely off the grid?

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— Mr. Robot

Steel Mountain is a data security facility headquartered in a former limestone mine in the Adirondack Mountains, near Albany. With its steel gates, armed guards, and CCTV surveillance, Steel Mountain provides information management services to most corporations in the S&P 500, including E Corp.

The Steel Mountain hack is inspired by the Stuxnet worm, an alleged US-Israeli cyberweapon designed to sabotage Iran's nuclear program. Targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs), Stuxnet took control of the rotor speed of uranium enrichment centrifuges, rapidly accelerating and decelerating the units to create mechanical stress. Stuxnet destroyed as many as one thousand centrifuges, and delayed Iran's nuclear program by roughly three years. (“Mr. Robot_dec0d3d.doc”)